Collection: Nagy

Item Number: NC0006

Category: Basket

Region: California

Tribe: Karok

Period: 1900-1925

Materials: Maidenhair fern; porcupine quills dyed with staghorn lichen (wolfmoss); wild grape root, myrtle sticks.

Description: Lidded basket with flint (obsidian blade) design.

Dimensions: Width 5.5 inches; Height w/o top 3 inches; Height with top 5 inches

Provenance:

Elizabeth Hickox
Deaccessioned 2010

References:

Letter describing this basket from Coleen Kelly Marks, Orick, California, May 28, 1993

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